DdCno1 @ DdCno1 @kbin.social

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Serious question: Is this your first war? Wars usually don't have safe zones at all. Even a terrible safe zone is still better than nothing.

Good thing that it isn't.

I get the feeling that this war is the first one many people are trying to pay attention to and I'm under the impression that the horrors that exist in every war are so totally new and alien to these well-meaning, but poorly informed people that they have no way to deal with them but through superlatives and exaggeration, including the almost dogmatically repeated claim that there is a genocide happening here.

That is a remarkably uninformed statement. Israel is a center of cutting-edge research and leading production. Name any field from biotech to semiconductors, from robotics to defense and there's likely an Israeli research institute or startup at the forefront. That's a huge asset to have. American tanks would not have a missile defense system without Israel, Intel's computer chips would be significantly slower and the entire global drone industry, both civilian and military, would be set back by many years if it wasn't for this small nation, just to name a few examples.

So much power and treasure? The amount spent on arms sent to Israel is not even a rounding error compared to the entire federal budget. Power? Netanyahu can huff and puff all he wants, Israel is clearly acting within tight limits set by the US.

Russia is more or less openly supporting Hamas and China is choosing a transparent and clumsy policy of endearing themselves with the global South by only condemning Israel and not even mentioning Hamas. Neither nation should be admired for what they are doing.

Name any other army that does this. Homes can be rebuilt, people can not. This is the least terrible option.

They did not say that. The safe zone was solely meant to protect people from the bulk of the ground fighting in Gaza city. That's it. Don't make up nonsense.

What an incredibly idiotic thing to do. Trump is hell-bent on destroying American democracy and giving both China and Russia all the Lebensraum that they want while enriching himself. And do look up his Israel policy, while you're at it.

The amount of suffering a Trump victory has a high chance of creating makes the war in Gaza look like a picnic.

Sounds nice in theory, but it works both ways: It would make political progress very difficult. Imagine a scenario in which e.g. trans rights are being rejected as unconstitutional in the past. The same politicians are then trying again in a different political climate year or decades later. This would be illegal according to your proposal.

Not to mention, it would be fairly trivial to circumvent this by using different politicians from the same party or an aligned interest group.

They even forcefully removed their settlers out of Gaza, emptied thriving settlements as a gesture of good will. They were almost immediately thanked for it by bombs, rockets, shootings and other attacks while the Palestinians in Gaza razed productive greenhouses and tore up irrigation pipes as they took over these settlements. It was a slap in the face, shortsighted idiocy by the Palestinian leadership and, sadly, a taste of what was to come.

I was expecting something a bit more substantial than the equivalent of a tweet.

To be fair, the Aurus is effectively a European luxury car. Made in Russia, but all of the tech was developed by German firms (Porsche and Bosch - I suspect the Russian portion of the engineering was nominal at best) and it is modern in terms of specs and equipment, if ridiculously overpriced for what it is.

Don't put words in my mouth. That's not at all what I said and you know that, but you cared more about making a cheap shot than having a serious discussion.

If what you said were true, then Hamas would be more popular in Gaza (where Israeli bombs are falling) compared to the West Bank (where they are usually not). Except that's not at all the case.

Also, don't think I didn't notice how you glossed over me correcting your ridiculous claim about Israel having created Hamas by moving the goalposts to another generic social media talking point. Why are self-proclaimed pro-Palestinians only using the same small number of paper-thin talking points?

SNES9X from more than a decade ago

This emulator came out 26 years ago and IIRC, it had filters by the very early 2000s at the latest.

Or it's just confused Hamas propagandists stumbling over their own words. It's not like these "health officials" have been reliable in the past.

It just looks clean. Lowpoly games benefit from running at high resolutions to a surprising degree. The better the art, the more it benefits from being shown with as little obfuscation as possible. There are texture packs and shaders available for popular old games, but even without them, it's often worth it to ramp up the resolution, even far beyond 4K. I've played some old games at ridiculous resolutions like 5k or more, eliminating even a hint of jagged edges. You can then add a touch of retro flair through scanline and bloom shaders.

Exactly. Make no mistake, decoupling from China would hurt the West greatly, but the consequences for China would be devastating, to the point of threatening the regime's rule. I don't think they quite realize that this would be the immediate and most painful consequence of an invasion of Taiwan. Given how irrational Xi has acted in response to COVID-19 however, I'm not certain he or the yes-men surrounding him are looking at this situation objectively.

Most end up in Georgia, because it's just across the border, culturally and linguistically close.

It's a long and proud tradition that has existed for as long as there have been windows at higher than ground level. Entire wars were started over this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DefenestrationsofPrague

I am however convinced that in Putin's Russia, defenestrations aren't always the actual cause of death. It's a far too convenient method for covering up torture.